Topical vocabulary

daily routine	обычный распорядок дня
accomplish smth	совершать, выполнять что-либо
a first-year student	первокурсник
to do some gentle stretching	потягиваться
to perform morning routine	совершать обычные утренние дела
to take a quick shower	ополоснуться
to put in contact lenses	надеть контактные линзы
to get something on the way	перекусить на ходу
a "long" break	большая перемена
to do some shopping on the way back	зайти в магазин на обратном пути
to take the dog out	погулять с собакой
to get a little snack	перекусить
to find it really relaxing	считать, что-то расслабляющим
to think of something really mindless	не думать ни о чем серьезном
to be a slave to housekeeping routines	быть рабом порядка в доме
to give priority to smth	отдавать приоритет чему-либо
to go out on a date	пойти на свидание
to go for a trip	съездить в путешествие
to devote more time to smth	посвящать больше времени чему-либо
weekends	выходные дни
weekdays	будние дни

Exercise1.

Match the highlighted words or word combinations in the text with their definitions.

1. the activities and experiences that constitute a person's normal existence;

2. a regular journey of some distance to and from one's place of work;

3. an interval during the school/university day:

4. a plan of the times when particular events are to take place;

5. a situation in which a lot of things are happening or being done;

6. to reach in time and board;

7. I put on my clothes;

8. a situation when two people meet by arrangement;

9. the act or process of copying data from one computer system to another or to a disk;

10. to cut something into small pieces with a knife or other sharp implement.

Exercise2.

How often do you do these things? Use the frequency adverbs or adverbial phrases from the box:

always

usually

not often/often

sometimes

never

once/twice/ three times a week/ a month/ a fortnight

hardly ever

four or five times a year or less

less than once a year

come on time /come in time	spend most of time in the kitchen
listen to music	start the day by getting up at 11 o’clock
wake up at 6 am & do yoga	make a cup of tea in the morning
eat junk food	work in the garden
shampoo and condition the hair	clean the windows
use body scrub to wash the body	take tranquillizers or sleeping pills
buy magazines or journals	find it difficult to relax
read books	dry the hair with a hair drier
send or receive emails/ check emails	do the dishes
have on-line conversations	clean the house
go to the cinema, theatre	do the cooking
go out to the Disco\Nightclub\to a bar	take a bath
go out on Friday or Saturday nights	do the ironing
come to work late	do the washing
act lazily	do crosswords
put on makeup	make the bed in the morning